The talk I listened to this week with Dr. Inba Kehoe was about copy right and intellectual property. She talked about both usage of copyright material and the creation of material that can be copyrighted. This was more informative than anything, and I recommend you go and listen to it yourself on one of week fives videos. As a student in university, it’s very important to not be breaking any copyright laws when doing assignments so being aware of such laws is crucial. However, for me, I found the personal copyright to be fairly new territory.
I’ve recently been watching YouTube essays on how people use AI and steal small creators music to use in generate their own songs. This video, by Youtuber/Music Artist Gabi Belle, talks about such case. I thought that since the artists weren’t big it meant they didn’t have anything to back them; knowing now a little bit more on how copyright should be applied I can relate this to my life in a sense. I have a public photography account, on which I’ve posted photos of places I’ve visited and hikes in my hometown.
It’s certainly a possibility that tourist websites, for instance, might take photos from my account and use them without my permission. I learned from Inba that my work has an automatic copyright applied to it so I actually would have a valid stance to fight with if I cared to. Similarly, if someone reached out formally to use my photos, I learned there are different kinds of copyright that allow me to keep or remove types of restrictions. this gives me more control over how my work is shared. Truly more complex than I was aware, and definitely something I think people should learn about.